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Author: Geoff Nicholson
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: B0028N72J4

The Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, and Literature of Pedestrianism

A fascinating, definitive, and very personal rumination on the history, science, philosophy, art, and literature of walking, by a skilled cultural commentator. Get The Lost Art of Walking diet books 2013 for free.
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Geoff Nicholson, author of Bleeding London and Sex Collectors, turns his eye to the intellectual and cultural history of that most common of activities-walking. This simple, omnipresent activity has inspired numerous subcultures, literary and artistic legacies, sporting events, personal memories, epic journeys, mystical revelations, and scandals.

It's a rich tradition that embraces such novelists as Charles Dickens and Paul Auster, musicians like Robert Johnson and Bob Dylan, and moviemakers from Buster Keaton to Werner Herzog. But it's also Check The Lost Art of Walking our best diet books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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